Playlist - 3 October 2020

Tonight, turning the clock back 50 years to 1970, including a healthy selection of music from the so-called "head music" scene here in the various capital cities around Australia.

 8pm
Jethro Tull     The witches promise (January 1970) (single only  / 20 Years Of Jethro Tull)
Renaissance    Islands (single, January 1970) (Renaissance)
Van der Graaf Generator    Refugees (January 1970) (The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Relief from a lighted doorway (March 1970) (Empty Monkey)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (March 1970) (Joint Effort)
Sherbet    Crimson ships (April 1970) (single only/ So You Want To Be A Rock n Roll Star Vol..2)
King Crimson    Cat food (May 1970) (In The Wake Of Poseidon)
Quatermass    Black sheep of the family (May 1970) (Quatermass)
Yes    Time and a word (June 1970) (Time And A Word)
9pm
Zoot    Flying (July 1970) (Just Zoot)
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Affinity    Three sisters (1970) (Affinity)
Doug Parkinson In Focus    Purple curtains (September 1970) (single only / Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974 Vol.1)
Beggar’s Opera    Poet and peasant (November 1970) (Act One)
Caravan    Hello Hello (October 1970) (If I Could Do It Again I’d Do It All Over You)
Tamam Shud     Take a walk on a foggy morn + Goolutionites Theme Part 1 + Goolutionites Theme Part 2 (October 1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Emerson Lake and Palmer    Knife edge (November 1970) (Emerson Lake and Palmer)

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Playlist - 2 February 2019

The first in an occasional series of programs focused on and around the "head music" scene in the capital cities around Australia, tonight moving from late 1969 to mid 1971 and featuring Fraternity, Levi Smiths Clefs (Adelaide), Healing Force, Sons Of The Vegetal Mother, Spectrum (Melbourne), Dave Miller Set, Kahvas Jute, Samael Lilith, Tamam Shud, Tully (Sydney) and Jeff St John (Perth/Sydney).

8pm
Tamam Shud    Mr Strange + It’s a beautiful day (Nov 1969) (Evolution)
Tamam Shud    I love you all + Goolutionites Theme Part 2 (Oct 1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tamam Shud    See the swells (1972) (Morning Of The Earth film s/track / bonus track on re-issue of Goolutionites And The Real People)
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (Feb 1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (March 1970) (Joint Effort)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Lisa (March 1970) (Empty Monkey)
Tully    The sun is shining (July 1970) (Tully)
Tully    Sea of joy (Part 1) (June 1971) (Sea Of Joy)
9pm
Sons Of The Vegetal Mother    Love is the law + Make it begin (Oct 1970) (Garden Party EP)
Kahvas Jute    Vikings + Free (Jan 1971) (Wide Open)
Dave Miller Set    Mr Guy Fawkes (July 1969) (single only / Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
Dave Miller Set    No need to cry (March 1970) (single only / Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974)
Spectrum    Drifting (March 1971) (Part One)
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (March 1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974, compilation)
Healing Force    Golden Miles (July 1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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From 1970, Spectrum, in trippy mode, on the ABC TV show GTK :

Playlist - 29 July 2017

Tonight, classic music from Australian electronic specialists Cybotron (Sydney), The Masters Apprentices (Adelaide) and Samael Lilith (Sydney) plus more recent music from Sebastian Hardie (Sydney). Plus, from the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book, a multitude of birthdays including keyboardist Rick Wright (Pink Floyd), Geddy Lee (Rush), Steve Morse (a multitude of assignments, most famously The Dixie Dregs) and Kate Bush

8pm
Sebastian Hardie    Art of life (2012) (Blueprint)
Pink Floyd    Summer ‘68 (1970) (Atom Heart Mother)
Pink Floyd    Us and them (1973) (Dark Side Of The Moon)
Rush    Fly by night (1975) (Fly By Night)
Rush    Roll the bones (1991) (Roll The Bones)
Steve Morse    Modoc (1989)  (High Tension Wires)
The Dregs    Cruise control (1981) (Unsung Heroes)
Cybotron    Sonic Override: Gliding / The riddle / Answer (1976) (Cybotron)
9pm
Kate Bush    Ninth wave: And dream of sheep / Under ice / Waking the witch / Watching you without me / The morning fog (1985) (Hounds of Love)
Cosmograf    Hay-man (2017) (The Hay-Man Dreams)
The Masters Apprentices    Melodies of St. Kilda/Southern Cross / Thyme to rhyme (1972) (A Toast To Panama Red)
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

Playlist - 27 August 2016

Tonight, another selection of progressive rock from around the world and from here in Australia, starting with some classic Australian electronic music from Cybotron (Melbourne). There's also some selections from the musical legacy of Gilli Smyth (Gong, Mother Gong). And this weekend the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book features Alex Lifeson (Rush), Phil Shulman (Gentle Giant) and Nik Turner (Hawkwind).

8pm
Cybotron    Sonic Override: Gliding / The riddle / Answer (1976) (Cybotron)
Spectrum    Drifting (1971) (Part One)
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Mother Gong    I am a tree (1989) (The Owl And The Tree)
Gong    Oily way + Outer temple + Inner temple (1974) (Angel’s Egg)
Mystery    Delusion rain (2015) (Delusion Rain)
Mystery    Beneath the veil of Winter’s face (2007) (Beneath The Veil Of Winter’s Face)
Kevin Peek    Still waters (2010) (Still Waters: Music For TV and Film)
9pm
Rush    Clockwork angels (2012) (Clockwork Angels)
Rush    Closer to the heart (live) (1998) (Different Stages - Live)
Gentle Giant    Wreck (1971) (Acquiring The Taste)
Hawkwind    Kadu flyer (1974) (Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music)
Ben Craven    Last chance to hear Part 1 + Critical mass part 1 + Critical mass part 2 (2016) (Last Chance To Hear)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

Playlist - 23 January 2016

Australia Day is coming up this Tuesday - so it's likely there'll be great Australian music all over your radio this week, from one end of the dial to the other, and that's as it should be.
But there's probably only one place you'll hear classic progressive rock from legendary bands such as Company Caine, Lobby Loyde, Mackenzie Theory, Rainbow Theatre, Sebastian Hardie, Spectrum, Tamam Shud and Tully, plus great music from more recent releases by A Lonely Crowd, Ben Craven, Caligula's Horse, Montresor, Myriad, The Lammas Tide, Three Wide Monkeys, Transience and Adelaide's own Unitopia: that's Seasons Of Change - all-Australian, this Saturday night, from 8pm until 11pm.

8pm
Ben Craven    The conjurer + No specific harm + Solace (2011) (Great And Terrible Potions)
A Lonely Crowd    Seeing stars (2011) (Transients)
Montresor    Medusa (2011) (Daybreak)
Myriad    Reminded (2013) (Quietitude)
The Lammas Tide    In tangerine (2014) (Barefoot Electric)
The Lammas Tide    The Devil’s stone (2011) (High Tide)
Transience    Chimera (2013) (Transience EP)
9pm
Unitopia    Journey’s friend (2008) (The Garden)
Sebastian Hardie    Another string (2012) (Blueprint)
Sebastian Hardie    Peaceful (1976) (The Windchase)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 1 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Spectrum    Untitled (1971) (Milesago)
Tamam Shud    Sea the swells (1972) (Morning Of The Earth s/track / bonus track on re-issue of Goolutionites…)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 2 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
10pm
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Rainbow Theatre    The Armada (suite) (1975) (The Armada)
Cybotron    Arrakis (1976) (Cybotron)
Lobby Loyde    Relgon hall (Home of Lord Nezim) (1976/2006) (Beyond Morgia: The Labyrinths of Klimster)
Mackenzie Theory    Extra-terrestrial boogie (1973) (Out Of The Blue)
Company Caine    The last scene (1971) (A Product Of A Broken Reality)
Three Wise Monkeys    Waxer (2010) (The Red Album)

Playlist - 9 January 2016

For tonight's Summer edition of "Seasons Of Change", to paraphrase the title of a very early Pink Floyd song, we...

SET THE CONTROLS FOR: 1970

 ...encountering the usual diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, or at least as much as can fit into 3 hours. Amidst some classics and oddities, this includes classic Australian music from Doug Parkinson In Focus, Flake, Jeff St John, Levi Smith's Clefs, Tamam Shud, Tully and Zoot.

8pm
Renaissance    Islands (single, January 1970) (Renaissance)
Van der Graaf Generator    Refugees (January 1970) (The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other)
Egg    Fugue in D minor (March 1970) (Egg)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Relief from a lighted doorway (March 1970) (Empty Monkey)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (March 1970) (Joint Effort)
Sherbet    Crimson ships (April 1970) (single only)
King Crimson    Cat food (May 1970) (In The Wake Of Poseidon)
Quatermass    Black sheep of the family (May 1970) (Quatermass)
Yes    Time and a word (June 1970) (Time And A Word)
9pm
Uriah Heep    Come away, Melinda (June 1970) (Very 'Eavy... Very 'Umble)
Quintessence    Sea of immortality (1970)  (Quintessence)
Atomic Rooster    Tomorrow night (single, July 1970) (Death Walks Behind You)
Tully    You realise you realise (July 1970) (Tully)
Zoot    Flying (July 1970) (Just Zoot / Zoot Locker)
Zoot    I’m only sleeping (rec. 1970) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Flake    Wheel’s on fire (1970) (single, bonus track on reissue of How’s Your Mother)
Hawkwind    Hurry on sundown (August 1970) (Hawkwind)
The Moody Blues    Question (August 1970) (A Question Of Balance)
Doug Parkinson In Focus    Purple curtains (September 1970) (single only, Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974 Vol.1)
Beggar’s Opera    Poet and peasant (1970) (Act One)
10pm
Pink Floyd    If (October 1970)  (Atom Heart Mother)
Tamam Shud    Stand in the sunlight + Take a walk on a foggy morn + Goolutionites Theme Part 1 + Goolutionites Theme Part 2 (October 1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Genesis    The knife (October 1970) (Trespass)
Pete Brown & Piblokto!    Aeroplane head woman (November 1970) (Thousands On A Raft)
Emerson, Lake and Palmer    The barbarian (November 1970) (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
Curved Air    It happened today (November 1970) (Air Conditioning)
Zoot    Eleanor Rigby (December 1970) (single only / Zoot Locker)

Playlist - 27 June 2015

This week, another serving of prog rock and a bit of anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring recent heavy music from Red Light Sound (Adelaide) and Arcane (Brisbane), and post rock from Echotide (Brisbane) plus classic sounds from Bakery, Samael Lilith and Sherbet. And it's happy birthday to that exceedingly talented kiwi, Tim Finn.

8pm
Rush    YYZ (1981) (Moving Pictures)
Rush    The necromancer (1975) (Caress Of Steel)
Rush    Grand designs (1985) (Power Windows)
Caravan    C’thlu Thlu (1973) (For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night)
Hatfield and the North    Mumps (1975) (The Rotters Club)
Echotide    3mwy (Of Hope) (2012) (As Our Floodlights Gave Way To Dawn)
9pm
Split Enz    Maybe (1975) (Mental Notes)
Split Enz    Spellbound (1974/1979) (The Beginning Of The Enz)
Split Enz    I hope I never (1980) (True Colours)
Finn    Eyes of the world (1995) (Finn)
Red Light Sound    Earth divides (2015) (Latitudes)
Arcane    Keeping Stone: sound on fire (2015) (Known/Learned)
Tiles    Static (1999) (Presents Of Mind)
Tiles    Dress rehearsal (1994/2004) (Tiles)
Ozric Tentacles    Changa masala (2015) (Technicians Of The Sacred)
10pm
Bakery    Living with a memory (1971) (Momento)
Sherbet    Crimson ships (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Split Enz    Bold as brass + Give it a whirl + Pioneer + Six months in a leaky boat (live, NZ, 1993) (Greatest Hits: Live)
Curved Air    Over and above (1972) (Phantasmagoria)
Company Caine    The last scene (1971) (A Product of a Broken Reality)

Playlist - 10 January 2015

For tonight's Summer edition of "Seasons Of Change", to paraphrase the title of a very early Pink Floyd song, we...

SET THE CONTROLS FOR: 1970

 ...encountering the usual diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, or at least as much as can fit into 3 hours. Amidst some classics and oddities, this includes classic Australian music from Doug Parkinson, Flake, Jeff St John, Samael Lilith, Tamam Shud, Tully and Zoot.

8am
Jethro Tull    The witches promise (January 1970) (single only  / M.U. The Best Of)
The Golden Earring    Eight miles high (January 1970) (Eight Miles High)
Egg    Fugue in D minor (March 1970) (Egg)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (March 1970) (Joint Effort)
Sherbet    Crimson ships (April 1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
King Crimson    Cat food (May 1970) (In The Wake Of Poseidon)
Yes    Sweet dreams (June, 1970) (Time And A Word)
9pm
Zoot    Flying (July 1970) (Just Zoot)
Zoot    I’m only sleeping (rec. 1970) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Flake    Wheel’s on fire (1970) (How’s Your Mother)
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Traffic     John Barleycorn (July 1970)  (John Barleycorn Must Die)
Affinity    Three sisters (1970) (Affinity)
Doug Parkinson In Focus    Purple curtains (September 1970) (single only / Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974 Vol.1)
Beggar’s Opera    Raymond’s road (1971) (Act One)
Pink Floyd    Fat old sun (October 1970)  (Atom Heart Mother)
Syd Barrett    Octopus (January 1970) (The Madcap Laughs)
10pm
Tamam Shud    Stand in the sunlight + Take a walk on a foggy morn + Goolutionites Theme Part 1 + Goolutionites Theme Part 2 (October 1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tully    You realise you realise (July 1970) (Tully)
Genesis    Stagnation (October 1970) (Trespass)
Curved Air    It happened today (November 1970) (Air Conditioning)
The  Nice    Intermezzo from the Karelia suite (June 1970)  (Five Bridges Suite)
Emerson, Lake and Palmer    The barbarian (November 1970) (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
Zoot    Eleanor Rigby (December 1970) (single only / Zoot Locker)

Playlist - 12 July 2014

This week, another serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring recent music from Sydney band Anubis and Adelaide's Sympathy Orchestra, plus classic music from Blackfeather, Spectrum and Samael Lilith. And it's happy birthday to guitarist John Petrucci (Dream Theater).

8pm
Ozric Tentacles    Jurassic shift (live, 2007) (Sunrise Festival)
Pink Floyd    Stay (1972) (Obscured by Clouds)
Mostly Autumn    Dressed in voices (2014) (Dressed In Voices)
The Flower Kings    Desolation road (2013) (Desolation Rose)
Anubis    Collapse (live) (2012) (A King With No Crown, single)
Anubis    Hitchhiking to Byzantium (2014) (Hitchhiking To Byzantium)
9pm
Dream Theater    The enemy inside (2013) (Dream Theater)
Liquid Tension Experiment    Hourglass (1999) (Liquid Tension Experiment 2)
Dream Theater    Under a glass moon (1992) (Images And Words)
Blackfeather    At the mountains of madness + On this day that I die (1971) (At The Mountains Of Madness)
Spectrum    Trust me (1972) (Milesago)
Focus    Birth (1974) (Hamburger Concerto)
Egg    Wring out the ground (loosely now) (1974) (The Civil Service)
10pm
Pink Floyd    Raving and drooling (live, Wembley, 1974) (Wish You Were Were, Experience Edition)
The Alan Parsons Project    Ammonia avenue (1984) (Ammonia Avenue)
Ozric Tentacles    Tidal Convergence (live, 2007) (Sunrise Festival)
Slapp Happy    Dawn (1974) (Casablanca Moon)
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Sympathy Orchestra    Upstart (2014) (Sword Machine)
Andy Salvanos    Dream recall (2011) (Dream Recall)

Playlist - 8 March 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, starting with some classic Tully from the early 1970's. Plus a selection from the new album by Adelaide band Quiet Child. And it's happy birthday to Robert Calvert (Hawkwind), Matthew Fisher and Robin Trower (Procol Harum).

8pm
Tully    Loving is hard + Ice (1970) (Loving Is Hard)
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Airbag    Redemption (2013) (The Greatest Show On Earth)
Airbag    All rights removed (2011) (All Rights Removed)
Pink Floyd    Learning to fly (1987) (A Momentary Lapse Of Reason)
Schicke Fuhrs Frohling    Explorer (1977) (Sunburst)
Morglbl    Le Surfer D'Argentine (2012) (Brutal Romance)
9pm
Procol Harum    A whiter shade of pale (1967) (single only / bonus track on reissue of Procol Harum)
Procol Harum    Memorial drive (1971) (Broken Barricades).
Robin Trower    Bridge of sighs (1974) (Bridge Of Sighs)
Quiet Child    Redshift + A hail of stones (2014) (Chapter & Verse)
Sebastian Hardie    Vuja de (2011) (Blueprint)
10pm
Hawkwind    25 years + High Rise + Spirit of the age (live, 1978) (1992) (The Hawklords Live)
Hawkwind    Quark, Strangeness and Charm (1977) (Quark, Strangeness And Charm)
Robert Calvert & Amon Duul    Big wheel (1989) (Die Lösung)
Mastodon    The Czar (2009) (Crack The Skye)
Kevin Peek    Walk in the sun (2010) (Music For TV And Film: Still Waters)
Sympathy Orchestra    Mystic peanut (2014) (Sword Machine)